Barcelona en Comú, the party of the acting mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, has appealed to the Zone Electoral Board the recount of the results of the municipal elections of the past 28-M so that they are attributed the 150 votes of an act of Ciutat Vella who believe that they were given to Cs by mistake.
According to sources from BComú, this formation filed an appeal last night with the Zone Electoral Board, upon detecting some "material errors" in the tally sheet and the opening of invalid votes from the recount carried out last Friday, which confirmed the PSC as second match in Barcelona, ahead of Ada Colau's formation, and widened the distance between the two from 141 to 342 votes difference.
After almost ten hours of tense counting last Friday at the Zone Electoral Board, in the City of Justice of Barcelona, the final results maintain the same distribution of councilors as last Sunday, May 28, so that Xavier Trias prevails (JxCat) with eleven councillors, followed by Collboni, with ten councillors, and Colau, with nine.
Specifically, BComú has now requested that the minutes of the table 1-045-U, from Ciutat Vella, which reflects five votes for Ciudadanos, 150 for BComú and 4 for PACMA, be considered valid, since they understand that it is "coherent" with the number of votes cast and that there are also two copies of the minutes that validate it.
However, in the recount carried out last Friday by the Zone Electoral Board, in reference to table 1-045-U, a total of 4 votes were finally granted to BComú and 150 to CS, which the party de Colau attributes to a material error by skipping one of the columns.
For this reason, BComú requests in its appeal that the results reflected in these minutes be considered valid -with 150 votes for Colau, 4 for PACMA and 5 for CS-, which were the ones that were approved on election night and that were not they took into account last Friday in the count.
As the difference between the PSC and BComú increased to 342 votes in last Friday's count, if this appeal were accepted it would hardly entail a change in the current correlation of forces, unless new changes were added originating from possible resources from other candidacies.
According to BComú, their appeal is not a challenge and does not affect the date of the inauguration, although they consider that they have the right to request that the errors that they believe there were in the count be clarified.
The president of Junts, Laura Borràs, has criticized the appeal presented by BComú to the Electoral Board of the Barcelona Zone alleging errors in the final count of the municipal elections, and added: "They don't know how to win or how to lose".
"Winning the elections with a defamation against Xavier Trias was more than a mistake. Accepting the votes of the extreme right of Manuel Valls was more than a mistake," Borràs said this Sunday in a tweet.
